/lit/ - Literature

>>18682288
Nietzsche was, at his core, an existentialist aesthete inspired by American Transcendentalists and Eastern religions. It makes a lot of sense why he would, in his personal conception, view anyone who said, believed, and preached that they had found an answer to living--which is why he disliked parts of German culture, the Church, different schools of philosophy, and certain people--as at best harmless morons and at worst dangerous and ignorant zealots.

His problem is that he's missing his own point--because his whole philosophy, like all others, seen through the lens of his own conception is as flawed and as forcible against the true nature of Nature as Stoicism is.

But that's why you have to be self-aware with Nietzsche when you read him. He's not someone you read for really technical and ethical explanations/frameworks for how to live life; you just kind of read him for the feeling he conveys through the passion he had in his work and in his life.